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  1. Re:I made a new language on "MS Killed Java" (on the Client) JL Founder · · Score: 1

    Goatse, would that be a language something like brainf**k or befunge? or the worst parts of both?
    I can imagine it now, it uses nothing from the ascii character set...

  2. Re:How old? on Finding BIOS Upgrades? · · Score: 1

    Every 486 I've come across has had a chunky EPROM dip (some might have had EEPROM).

  3. Re:Change in view? on Shuttle SS51 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Heathen bastard, did the devil put ye up to this?

  4. Re:First 32-bit processor came out in 1995?!?!? on AMD's 64-Bit Chip · · Score: 2, Informative
    Motorola came out with the 68020, a true 32-bit processor, in June of 1984
    So? The VAX came out somewhere around 1978, and it was also a 32bit processor, and DEC had been doing 36bit processors for a long time. I think you'll find there's more out there if you just look a little harder. Computing didn't start in 1980, just like 32bits didn't just appear in 1984.
  5. Re:Look to your Sparc for the warning on AMD's 64-Bit Chip · · Score: 1
    And arent HPs PA-RISC machines 64bit too?
    Yes, PA8000's and above are 64bit (it's a part of the PA 2.0 spec I think).
  6. Re:PHP, go to the source on Best Websites for Developers? · · Score: 1

    Or, if you're like me, and have very little bandwidth, rsync a copy of the php.net website onto a local webserver and use it from there. Sure, it takes a while to mirror, but it saves soo much time when you're trying to find out how to use a function. Plus, mirroring it gives you access to the comments in the documentation(one of the best things about the php documentation, helps out in soo many ways), something that you miss out on by downloading a pdf (or one of their other many formats avaliable) version of the manual.
    Mirroring details here

  7. Re:PA-RISC Linux on The Importance of Being Debian · · Score: 1
    And just to get this even more on topic, HPPA Linux is based on Debian :o)

    Although it unfortunately doesn't support my HP-9000 800/G30, and most likely never will. I guess it'll just have to remain running HPUX *shudder*.

  8. Fire the Development Team on RealOne Player for Mac OS X · · Score: 2, Interesting
    OSX has been out for what? close to 2 years? It has taken that long for Real to release a version of their player that doesn't require us to load it in classic, and it's still only Beta quality (or probably closer to pre-alpha quality, but, then again, they never get any better than that). I'm guessing it'll blow donkey balls just as much as previous versions.

    Bah, what a load of shit. Now if only half of my Futurama collection (note: I didn't encode it) wasn't in realvideo format, or if there was some easy way to convert them to a *SANE* format (read. doesn't require a fucked up media player full of spyware and advertising).

    Now, if they had a decent dev team, it might have been out there a just after OSX was released, and it might have become stable (dreaming), and it might have evolved into a DECENT format (impossible).

  9. Get a *REAL* computer on OS-Independent Remote Network Boot? · · Score: 1
    Seriously, trying to netboot a pc is just too hard to do to be practical. Get something that's been designed to be netboot, then you'll realise just how easy things can be. It's soo much easier to boot up a sparc (stop+a, "boot net") than it is for a pc (install boot rom, realise that there are too many limitations to be practical).

    I once was considering attempting to get a pc to net boot, I gave up after a few hours of reading the documentation that read just as well as a if it had been written in klingon then translated to zulu.

    Don't even get me started on some of the protocols needed (pxe which I have no clue about vs. bootp/dhcp + tftp & nfs).

    So, if you want to net boot something, go out and invest in some sparcs, hppa's, sgi's, alpha's, or even mac's. You'll save yourself from soo much stress that way.
    </rant>

  10. Re:Well..... on New Supersonic Jet Test Less Than Successful · · Score: 1

    You mean it's lucky it didn't hit any of the buildings that weren't destroyed by the refugees being held out there (or the ppl who are trying to get them out by causing even more destruction)...

  11. Re:How to build an EMP bomb 101. on Harvesting Capacitors for Backyard Munitions · · Score: 1
    Oops, s/hat/that/ :o)

    Should have done a better job proofreading.

  12. Re:How to build an EMP bomb 101. on Harvesting Capacitors for Backyard Munitions · · Score: 1
    1. get a 5 farad capacitor, WHERE you say? TRAMS have em, they are huge.

    2. charge up to 1 million volts...

    Umm, minor detail I cap of hat size wouldn't have a very high voltage rating, 500V if you're lucky. Above that, and it'll likely arc across the dielectric letting out the "magic smoke".
  13. Re:Can't pull IE from Windows, huh? on Software Engineering at Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Might have something to do with the ability to 'rm /usr/bin/lynx' without the whole system complaining. Besides, lynx doesn't suck as much as ie, and isn't loaded at startup to make it appear faster than any other browser, because we all know lynx is faster without crude hacks.

  14. Re:Bash bash bash on Microsoft Claims IP Rights on Portions of OpenGL · · Score: 1
    Microsoft believes they have patent rights relating to the ARB_vertex_program extension.
    Nuff said.
  15. Re:Why use Red Carpet, on Gnome 2.0 on Ximian Installations? · · Score: 1
    when instead you can spend 3 days compiling Gnome 2.0 by hand?
    What? Only 3 days...
    <rant>Back in my day, we'd use have to hand assemble the programs by hand, using the pizza stained schematic napkins to work out the opcodes needed, then induce the bit patterns onto tape using pieces of magnetite we found out in the parking lot. We got a bonus of an hour of playing pong if we completed the assembly process within the year.</rant>

    Or maybe not :o)

  16. Re:wk2 still has a lot of life left. on Windows 2000 - Nine Months to Live · · Score: 1
    PICO comes with the Mutt text-based emailer
    No, pico comes with pine.
  17. Re:About the binary on The Reverse Challenge: Winners Announced · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Nope, it is protocol 11(decimal), ie. ox0b.
    From my own playing around with "the-binary" during the contest (on a box that was totally disconnected from the world), I got the following from an strace -f

    socket(PF_INET, SOCK_RAW, 0xb /* IPPROTO_??? */) = 0

    As you can see, it's opening it as protocol 11, and he didn't miss an 0x from the beginning. So, it's not just UDP.